The social movement causing children to question their gender – and in some instances partake of a chemical brew that suppresses their normal physical development – has created new ethical issues.
And lapses, apparently.
A professor at Oxford University in the United Kingdom is accusing the National Health Service’s only specialized clinic for transgender children of suppressing negative results of experimental treatments.
Dr. Michael Biggs of the school’s Department of Sociology alleges the Gender Identity Development Service has been handing out experimental puberty blocking hormones to children even though there was “a significant increase” in the number of girls who self-reported to staff members they “deliberately try to hurt or kill” themselves.
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